Facebook / Orkut Rumormongering

There’s a rumor going around that the new Orkut-to-Facebook feature is what’s causing the latest facebook meltdown. I don’t konw if it’s true or not since I haven’t spoken to anyone about it or tried to verify with sources. But I have an article quota, plus I haven’t shown how smart I am in a while. What to do, what to do?

Oh yes! Pose it as an intelligent question:

Is this new import feature what’s causing the meltdown? And why aren’t facebook and google, two companies that have spent a lot of time making sure their sites scale well, able to handle this sudden traffic? If I were building a website and targeting India and Brazil, I’d have made it much more robust since most people (I don’t have research on this) have more than one on various social networks.